NMLW Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 SAA Flight 214 is a Douglas DC-7B flying from Johannesburg, South Africa to Beira, Mozambique (FAJS - FQBR). There are 2,600 gallons of fuel on board for the six hundred eight mile flight. The total flight time is about 2 hours and 35 minutes. The weather for most of the flight is for scattered cloud cover. We will be cruising at an altitude of 17,000 feet. Thanks to: Aircraft: Douglas DC-7B in a late 1956 SAA/SAL livery. The aircraft model is by Greg Pepper and Tom Gibson. The paint is by Andre Reimers. Propliner AI & Traffic: CalClassic & FS Aviator - Tom Gibson, Mike Stevens, Jason Krogmann, Manuel Jagmann, Bill Towers, Nikko Yaginuma, Richard Wright, Frederick Coleman, Dave Jones, Paul Haak, Marty Lochmiller, Ake Lindberg, Harland Sandberg, Richard Wright and Gary Harper. www.calclassic.com Scenery: FS2004 Standard and: - Johannesburg’s Jan Smuts and Beira Airports are from the 1960 Africa Scenery Package by Wolfgang Gersch, Harry Biard, Jaap de Baare, Mike Stevens, Tom Gibson, Nikko Yaginuma and Johan Dees. Available at www.calclassic.com - Rwy12 and EZ Static Object and Scenery Libraries. - FS2004 Classic Scenery Libraries V3 by Wolfgang Gersch. - REX FS9 enhancements for sky, cloud, weather, water/waves, runway, taxiway textures, sun and lighting. - Flight One Ground Environment Pro II. - HDE 2.0 grass texture enhancement by Pablo Diaz. Click to enlarge . . . 1. Passengers are loaded and getting ready to button up. 2. Hatches buttoned up and starting engine number one. 3. Taxiing out to Rwy. 3 for takeoff. 4. We are airborne and stowing the gear. 5. Turning toward a heading of 45 degrees toward Beira. 6. Climbing through 9,000 feet. 7. At 10,000 feet we leveled off and switched the superchargers to high. We’re now continuing to climb through 15,000 feet about 30 miles from Johannesburg. 8. Cruising at 17,000 feet with mixtures leaned and props adjusted. 9. Near the agricultural town of Groblersdal, SA we look out over our left wing at the sun. 10. Continuing on through the clouds over Kruger National Park about 300 miles from Johannesburg. More in the reply . . . . . . . . . Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 Click to enlarge . . . 11. We’re now about 30 miles into Mozambique with the Limpopo River just behind us. 12. Cruising over the Zinave National Park about 180 miles from Beira, Mozambique. 13. About 100 miles from Beira we look out over our right wing. 14. We begin our descent to 13,000 feet. 15. 25 miles from Beira we continue to descend through 9,000 feet. 16. At 3,000 feet we turn toward the airport with the Pungue River ahead. 17. Flaps full and gear down we are on final to Rwy. 12 at Beira. 18. Main gear down. 19. Nose wheel down. 20. Turning off the runway heading toward the terminal. 21. Parked and passengers offloaded. Thanks for flying SAA/SAL. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoggyDog Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Very nice. Thanks for sharing these! i7-10700K @3.8-5.1GHz, 32GB DDR4-2666 SDRAM, GTR-2060 Super 8GB, 2x SSDs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pchmck Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Nice shots and flight !! AMD FX-8350 8 CORES 4.0/ovrclckd 5.0GHz, GIGABYTE GA 990FXA-UD7, RAM 32GB/2000MHz, GeFORCE GTX TITAN, 2xSSD 256GB, 2*HDD 2TB, 3x42" LCD, SAITEK PRO FLIGHT, MCP+EFIS PANEL, ANDROID TABLET FOR FMC AND EFB, WIN8-64BIT, FS9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFR_Steve Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Very descriptive post, very enjoyable thanks for sharing :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCD Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Super post, Larry, enjoyed the flight and felt like a passenger! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aharon Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Glad to see that I am NOT the only person to describe each screenshot!!! Thanks for amazing specific description of each of your screenshots during your entire flight!! THAT IS WHAT MAKES AN EXTREMELY EFFICIENT SCREENSHOT POST!! Regards, Aharon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolf2 Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 great story, shots, scenery and plane! Phil Colvin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifejogger Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Great post Larry. I am glad you post these African retro flights otherwise I would never see these places you fly to. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 Thanks for your comments Doug, Peter, Steve, Klee, Aharon, Phil and John B. Glad you liked the post. :) Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Such a nice flight again! :cool::cool::cool: Your DC-7 is a beauty And I'm a big fan of the retro-scenery! :) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamb Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Marvelous flight and retro shots once again Larry!! :) Keep them coming! :) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircav1970 Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Larry,I always enjoy your nostalgic posts and this one is excellent! :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 Thanks for the kind words Adam, Gary & Jan. :) Jan, glad you like the Retro scenery. They did a big upgrade to the Asia/Pacific scenery last year and add a lot of airports. While I was looking through them I can across one that reminded me of you so I took a shot of it. Unfortunately I don't remember where it was, but here it is: Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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